#form

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. ↗

— Branch Rickey

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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#been #continuity #decorum #easy #explosion

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#civic #content #dramatic #endorsement #expression

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. ↗

— Quintilian

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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. ↗

— Quintilian

#form #idea #misery #prosperous #right

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#government #great #our #precipice #transformation

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#become #born #first #former #general

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#commandments #morality #new #new way #reformation

Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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